Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci